1. Stillwater 2. Hellian 3. T'riss (Kharkanas trilogy) I love women who go and cause problems for everyone around them

Arch Linux is the happiest operating system. You update your entire machine by typing out "yay", and install software with similar enthusiasm ex: "yay -S steam" I read it out loud every time I install something

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Healthcare without an assigned GP is more like meeting a lawyer trying to prove you're in the process of doing insurance fraud. They spend the entire time trying to debunk arguments that you've clearly not made, but assume you would do if you were trying to get free meds

Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.

Canadian citizens and residents, there's a new official parliamentary petition raising the issue of electoral reform and proportional representation. Signing is a direct means of meaningful action toward improving our democracy, and it just takes a moment to do. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Traditional French Canadian folk music teaches one thing: if you wanna brag about getting good head, then you better have an Irish bouzouki and some backing vocals for people who wanna join in

I installed Arch Linux last weekend. It was mostly: - spend 15 hours reading wiki articles to make sure I'm not missing something - setup 3 partitions, run a bunch of commands on them - choose network manager and boot loader - Install KDE Plasma - Install Steam Done. Everything up and running

The STM maintenance workers have announced an end to their month-long work slowdown (buses and metros run at rush hour and late night only) -- which is very convenient for people! But they're only doing it before a new government law forces them into arbitration -- which is bullshit.

I read a thread about games with terrible UI earlier and this video has been destroying me all day.

Tanya teaches us how to kiss NPCs in Streets of Fortuna. An exploration of our dialogue systems in this month's devlog 😘 ▶ Watch: youtu.be/RNZKH0keQeA

On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.

The only correct way to release a new "Nth anniversary" version of a famous album is to get a bunch of modern artists inspired by it to make their own cover of each track. All those remixes of the original tracks are pointless and only pollute the discography

When ostensibly leftist parties in Québec take a reactionary spin for the next election

I actually enjoy Ian C. Esslemont's books, but they clearly don't have enough editing. I keep finding typos every chapter. In "Orb, Scepter, Throne", chapter 19 is written as "Chapter IXX".

No Country For Old Men but it's two streamers constantly finding new material to cancel each other. The story ends with the millennial finally figuring out what people were subtweeting last week

Playing FF Tactics for the first time? Here’s a tip. Go to Mandalia Plain. You’re gonna spend 5 miserable hours having all your characters power up like goku next to a terrified bird or have them throw rocks at each other until they’re max level. This is the best game ever made btw.

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they were developed in a fentanyl lab located in Asbestos, Quebec, to be Woke, fireproof and deadly to the touch. their glands secrete generic prescription drugs and they all believe in climate change. these aren’t your granddad’s 30-50 feral hogs. they’re bilingual. they will win

me listening to the la-mulana soundtrack

In the game dev team size discourse, I think it's good to give more praises to people who've worked full time on a game than those who had limited contributions. The industry has a bad habit of "full time contractors", who are just as valid as permanent employees, but that's not what indies do

Finally found the point of a wishlist. You can buy a game from it while the Steam store is down

Everyone on Steam right now

Origami is my cat's favorite toy. It's both a piece of paper that he randomly found on the floor and a bird

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #nsfw #censorship #canpoli @acvalens.net

fucked that "vibe coding" now means something besides getting sorta high and blasting music and boppin' along while writin' c++ or whatever

Supraworld Act 1 is out! store.steampowered.com/app/1869290/... store.epicgames.com/de/p/suprawo...

Malazan shadow warren encounter table 01-50: Shadow hound 51-90: Edgewalker asking you to leave 91-99: Cotillion, offering a side quest 100: One of the actual terrifying demons that everyone's always worried about

Listening to some old French Canadian folk music, and there's this song that pulls the "Middle Eastern" music scale for a song about some beautiful far eastern brunette... in Paris. You know, from a North American perspective, valid!

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

While the world may have seemed to have grown past the need for a "Siège social des centre d'art martiaux chinois des moines Shao-Lin à Montréal", I think our society might need it once again

I have finally finished Fall of Light with the expectation that it was gonna take years to read the conclusion to the Kharkanas trilogy. Only this morning did I learn that Walk in Shadow actually started getting written in March of this year after 8 years of hiatus. Great timing!

But I would take five hundred Ls And I would take five hundred more Just to be the man who took a thousand Ls to fall down at your door

Reading Erickson's Fall of Light like "this character was just scummy in the first book, but he's really growing into a proper hateable and terrifying antagonist now, with all the power to... Did he just fuck a campfire?"

I can listen to any genre of music, as long as it has a loud shoegaze section somewhere in the track

Today I have actually hit a website that breaks entirely if you try to login to an account whose First Name field contains "special characters" like 'é'. Not only will the authentication reject you, the website will also go down until you delete cookies. It is impossible to fix without support

Malazan Caladan Brood to Kallor

what should the first episode of my podcast be about? ❌fire protection ❌housing access ❌water access ❌healthcare access ❌covid ❌addressing summer blackouts ❌the A’s moving to sac ❌state economy ❌high-speed rail ❌traffic ❌e-bike credit program ❌solar credit program ✅keeping trans kids from sports

I've just started reading Erickson's Forge of Darkness, and one scene in I have decided that Arathan is my new favorite guy. Young illegitimate failson of a king who's secretly an elder god, with negative confidence and a destructive nervous habit, now on a quest. Go buddy, you can do it

I gotta say, Caves of Qud is still missing quite a bit of user-experience aid for me. I know people say roguelikes are supposed to kill you constantly, but I'm used to setting exclusion zones so autoexplore doesn't jump on a known deadly trap

@gameengines.bsky.social I would like Unreal Engine please!

Just made a new world. One of the dwarf civilizations has a population of 1; it's just a king. #dwarffortress

Dunsparrow Malazan to her brother's friend

Reading Stonewielder like "Oh this is interesting" "Oh I love that" "What the fuck was that r-slur for" "Yay Kyle is cool. So excited"

My fellow residents of #Quebec, we have the opportunity to express an opinion on abolishing daylight savings time consultation.quebec.ca/processes/ch...